{"id":1166,"date":"2017-07-12T12:25:04","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T11:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2017-07-20T10:15:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T09:15:45","slug":"the-uk-needs-a-sector-deal-for-disability-as-part-of-the-governments-industrial-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/2017\/07\/12\/the-uk-needs-a-sector-deal-for-disability-as-part-of-the-governments-industrial-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"The UK needs a sector deal for disability as part of the government&#8217;s industrial strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Francis Davis\u00a0and Liam Booth-Smith, Chief Executive of Localis, have written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/Documents\/college-artslaw\/ptr\/theology\/research\/cpur\/A-sector-deal-for-disability.pdf\">a report<\/a> that makes the case for a disability \u2018sector deal\u2019 as part of the government\u2019s industrial strategy. The report was launched by the Department for Work and Pensions on 11 July 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Penny Mordaunt\u00a0MP, Minister of State for Department for Work and Pensions, welcomed the report&#8217;s recommendations, saying at the launch of the report that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pennymordaunt.com\/single-post\/2017\/07\/13\/Penny-Moraunt-My-speech-to-Localis-today-on-a-sector-deal-for-disability-for-the-industrial-strategy\">&#8220;the industrial strategy needs the practicality and the focus of sector deals, and if it doesn\u2019t have one for disability it will be incomplete.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1168\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1168\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1168\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2017\/07\/francis-davis-localis-report-launch-crop-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2017\/07\/francis-davis-localis-report-launch-crop-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2017\/07\/francis-davis-localis-report-launch-crop-250x141.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2017\/07\/francis-davis-localis-report-launch-crop.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1168\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Liam Booth-Smith (Localis), Penny Mordaunt MP, Minister of State for Department for Work and Pensions and Professor Francis Davis (copyright Localis\/Twitter) at the report&#8217;s launch in London on 11 July 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/Documents\/college-artslaw\/ptr\/theology\/research\/cpur\/A-sector-deal-for-disability.pdf\">Read the full report<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sector deal should address long standing barriers to the participation<br \/>\nof disabled people in the labour market by offering enhanced support and<br \/>\nincentives to employers, training providers and individuals. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":1167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[26,25,32,31,27],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-public-policy","tag-disability","tag-disabled-people","tag-industrial-sector","tag-industrial-strategy","tag-sector-deal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions\/1188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/cpur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}